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...first and most glaring shortfall of the election rules is the miniscule $100 spending limit, which, combined with a "dollar-per-demerit" system, has left candidates running campaigns that have very limited impact on campus. This leaves campaigns unable to generate significant amounts of positive energy around their platforms. One solution would be simply doubling the spending limit, so that campaigns could reach more students. This investment is also justified by the fact that exciting campaigns inevitably generate interest for the council as a whole...
...current state of the game. Sherman went so far as to advocate a salary cap resembling the one in place in other professional sports leagues. Volonnino, though not advocating an outright salary cap, proposed a luxury tax. This, however, is just as troubling seeing as it still imposes a limit, albeit permeable, on spending...
There's a catch here too. Today's cell-phone radiation standards--the federal limit is 1.6 w/kg--are based on decades-old guidelines that are considered somewhat arbitrary even by those who set them. (Recall how tire-safety standards, set 30 years ago, proved inadequate to protect consumers from the recent Firestone fiasco.) There's not even agreement on how to determine whether a cell phone really lives up to the standards. And while companies possess the technology to lower radiation sharply, they fear that marketing safety forcefully would only cause alarm...
Everyone looking for new drugs, whether genomically or in more traditional ways, wants to reduce the cost of bringing a medication to market--now estimated at $500 million. One way to do it is to limit trials to those people most likely to respond to a given drug. This too is governed by genetics. Says Ira Herskowitz, a biochemist and biophysicist at the University of California, San Francisco: "We're all different, we have different hair color and different features, right? How can we not metabolize drugs differently...
...potent female hormone may slightly increase the risk of suffering a heart attack in some women. A long-term study is expected to produce a definitive answer some time during the next five years or so. Until then, women with high cholesterol levels should get plenty of exercise, limit the amount of saturated fat in their diet and listen carefully if their physician suggests taking a cholesterol-lowering drug...